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Reasons to get one: - If you have hairy pets, then you may appreciate the MacBook Air's fanless design. - Fanless == quiet - Apple screens are some of the ab
by evanjrowley 1y ago
Reasons to get one:
- If you have hairy pets, then you may appreciate the MacBook Air's fanless design.
- Fanless == quiet
- Apple screens are some of the absolute best you can buy.
- If you have other Apple electronics (iPhone, Air Pods, Apple Watch, etc.) then it will integrate well with them.
- Excellent battery life.
- Excellent speakers and microphone array.
- Not dependent on cloud services that suffer major security beaches every year.
- Not using the same cloud services to data mine everything you do on your computer.
- Offers AppleCare as insurance to replace your stuff whenever there's a problem (vs. a standard time-limited warranty).
- Apple Script, Automator, and Shortcuts to automate what your Apple stuff does far beyond what you can do in Windows.
I don't care for much of what Apple provides, but the premium design and conveniences of a highly integrated ecosystem are worth the trouble. I would love to find something non-Windows that's better than my Macbook Air. If Google could make something like a fanless version of the 2013 Chromebook Pixel, it might just be good enough for me.
If there's one thing I'd caution against, as a user of a Macbook in the United States, it'd be the use of Touch ID / Face ID for logging in to your Apple products. Biometrics are not protected by the 4th amendment, so you can be compelled to unlock your device without a search warrant. For all of the security features Apple producs are reputed for, this is one big gap that doesn't ever really get talked about. For this reason I commend Microsoft for having a PIN option for Windows Hello authenticaiton.
- JustExAWS 1y agoWell the problems with that are that there are plenty cases where people were jailed in the US for not revealing their passwords and you believe that law enforcement is actually ethical and won’t use rubber duck decryption.